MDMD(8) Notes

[Sojourner]

At 08:47 AM 9/12/97 EDT, Christine Karatnytsky wrote:

>242.21 `Chapbook' OED has chap-book, E19, fr chap(man) = peddler +
>book, Hist a small pamphlet of tales, ballads, tracts etc hawked by a
>chapman.
>

Unrelated to TRP, I do believe that chapbooks was how
Shakespeare's first published works got printed and distributed.

I may be wrong though (as I often am *grin)

I think the Folios came later.